oblique angle
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6.5
- noun
- /əˈblik ˈæŋɡəl/
- Specialized
:
ángulo oblicuo
- The color of light is more appealing then because the sun's rays must enter the atmospheric band around the Earth at an oblique angle and must penetrate a thicker layer of atmospheric particles than when coming straight through.
I can actually hear the wheel spin because these wheels are at that weird oblique angle.
- I can actually hear the wheel spin because these wheels are at that weird oblique angle.
- There are solutions that come at a hyper oblique angle.
Examples
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For video recording, the camera should be directed at the chair and music stand at an oblique angle to capture a combination frontal-side view, with the lens width adjusted once to anticipate students of various heights.
Academic text (2001) -
This telescopic photograph confirms that we view the Andromeda Galaxy at an oblique angle, which makes it look oval.
Academic text (1991) -
And the only difference is that the oblique angle is now in the vertical plane, but that's a right angle, and this stays a right angle.
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Use an oblique angle rather than front lighting, which gives flat results; back lighting can also produce artistic results if a small fill-in flash is used to open up the shadow areas, leaving the subject with a rim lighting effect.
Academic text (2006) -
It looks very much like a ladder and uses only right-angle joints, so there's no need to cut oblique angles.
Academic text (1999) -
Even a simple pattern (like that of the labyrinth's black lines across the white ground) appears notably more dramatic and dynamic when seen from an oblique angle (Fig. 6).
Academic text (2011) -
The plane of the ecliptic, relative to the celestial equator, causes the oblique angle, and it is this phenomenon that designers, architects, and engineers use in order to take advantage of solar heating of our buildings.
Academic text (1990) -
Kirsten has a way of turning her head when she expresses dissatisfaction, demonstrating by the oblique angle that it's not her listener she's unhappy with; so she glared at an empty bird cage.
Fiction book (1991) -
It was midnight, and the sun was dim, pale, and low on the jagged horizon, filling the sky with an unscattered light at an oblique angle of incidence, without critical vigor.
Fiction book (1996) -
The architect designed the roof to meet the walls at an oblique angle for aesthetic effect.
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Morphology
The meaning 'an angle that is not a right angle' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'oblique' (slanted) with 'angle' (the measure between two lines). This is a straightforward compositional, technical term with similar formations in many languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can infer the meaning.
Etymology
Oblique angle gives a simple picture: oblique means slanted and angle is the space between two lines. So an oblique angle is a slanted angle — in other words 'not a right angle' like 90 degrees or a straight angle of 180 degrees, which is why the phrase means any angle that is not 90 or 180 degrees.